Category: Language and Culture
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Preserving Medicinal Knowledge Amidst the Decline of Indigenous Languages
The Threat to Traditional Medicine Knowledge A recent study has highlighted a pressing concern: as indigenous languages face extinction, invaluable knowledge about medicinal plants risks being lost. This loss is not just a matter of language, but a potential disappearance of centuries-old remedies, many of which remain undocumented in scientific literature. Languages as Vessels of…